The Hindu Business Line : Investment Quiz

1. This famous sports personality last week sold the rights to his name and likeness for $50 million to CKX, the company that also owns rights to the legendary Elvis Presley.

The rights were sold by selling a 80-per cent in GOAT, the licensing company to the name and likeness. The sport star retains the rest of the equity. Who is the person? What does GOAT stand for?

2. If you buy or sell `C' on the New York Stock Exchange, you will trade in the stock of which global major with a footprint that spans more than 75 countries?

3. Name the bank that went bankrupt after lending a liberal helping hand to Ketan Parekh during the IT/telecom/media stocks boom and bust in 1999-2000.

4. What is OneQ? (Clue: It has a link with NASDAQ.)

5. The Kotak Mahindra group has emerged as one of the leading financial services groups in the country. What is unique about Kotak Mahindra Capital Company?

6. Over the past decade, MTV has become one of the more, if not the most, popular music channels in India. Who owns this channel? The company in question also owns Nickelodeon, the children's channel.

7. Name the business groups which have bagged the airport modernisation rights for Delhi and Mumbai. If that was easy, they also have listed companies operating in different domains. Name them.

8. MerVal, CMA and MTMS are stock indices. If you keep a tab on them, which emerging markets will be on your radar?

9. What is common to BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Companhia Vale de Rio Doce?

10. Who is the person in the accompanying photograph? He has been with the HDFC group for more than two decades now. A qualified chartered accountant, he was in charge of Treasury at HDFC for 14 years.

His low-profile in a sharp contrast to the high visibility presence of the likes of Deepak Parekh and Deepak Satwalekar.

Now he heads one of the several financial services outfits that operate under the HDFC umbrella.

Answers

1. Muhammad Ali, the boxer; GOAT is the acronym for Greatest Of All Time (this is how the boxer described himself).

2. Citigroup

3. Madhavpura Mercantile Co-operative Bank

4. An exchange traded fund that mirrors the globally-tracked Nasdaq Composite Index; this is a product owned by Fidelity Investments.

5. It is the only company with unlimited liability in financial services; listed companies and their associates usually have a limited liability status.

6. Viacom

7. GMR (Delhi) and GVK (Mumbai); listed companies: GMR Industries and GVK Power.

8. Argentina, Egypt and Russia

9. The biggest beneficiaries of boom in the prices of ferrous and non-ferrous metals; they are the top three players in mineral resources and supply to metal manufacturers across the world.

10. Milind Barve.

Compiled by S. Vaidya Nathan